mar744 - Game Theory and Ecological Economics

mar744 - Game Theory and Ecological Economics

Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment 6 KP
module responsibility
  • Carsten Helm
Module counselling
  • Bernd Siebenhüner
  • Stefanie Sievers-Glotzbach
Semester courses Summer semester 2025
Form of instruction: Lecture
Hinweise zum Modul
Prerequisites

keine
Prüfungszeiten

Klausur am Ende der Veranstaltungszeit.
Module examination
KL
Skills to be acquired in this module

Game Theory

Students

- understand the importance of incentive systems for economic processes;

- have a firm knowledge in game theory;

- are able to apply methods from game theory largely independently to the analysis of situations in which agents interact strategically;

- are able to design incentive schemes – on their own and in teams – to acquire knowledge on their own for this purpose and to present their results.

Ecological Economics

The aim of the module “Ecological Economics” is to introduce students to core concepts and policy implications from the field of Ecological Economics. The module is structured into three parts. First, students will be introduced to the topic by two lectures on the specific vision and paradigms of Ecological Economics as distinguished from environmental & resource economics and on the history of Ecological Economics. Second, the students work out and discuss the core analytical concepts (ecological footprint, ecosystem services, social-ecological resilience, substitutability of natural capital, time) as well as the core normative concepts (justice, human behaviour) in Ecological Economics. Third, the students will discuss and reflect certain policy implications following from Ecological Economics – specifically the economics of degrowth and the measurement of welfare. The basis for discussion will be classical and current scientific papers.

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